one-armed dwarf Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 ty regemond Yeah the front part with the fans is clear. All the glass makes me a bit anxious tbh
one-armed dwarf Posted January 29, 2020 Posted January 29, 2020 We have lift off Pictures tomorrow, probably. I still have a few things not correctly organised inside but at least I've confirmed the fucking thing works lol PC gaming sucks, I think. This is far too much work ? 3
one-armed dwarf Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 All in all I think that build took 5 hours across the two days. I think I made things harder for myself with that case. It took me a really long time to figure out how to install the PSU of all things. Only got the smallest of chances to do a test run (DMC5 naturally, though there's not a lot in that game to tax a system other than way too much loading screens), but later on I'm going to install the Witcher 3 and turn all the settings up full blast and see how good/bad it handles things in Novigrad. A thing I like is this shadowplay stuff. Now I can record stuff in 60 frames. Very nice. In the meantime, are there any programs I need to have on a PC in 2020? I spent a bit of time installing a bunch of stuff. Discord, steam etc. I remember needing to use Riva Tuner to keep frame times stable on certain games, is this still a thing that needs to be done? What program do people use to monitor temps? So I can figure out if that heatsink is installed correct. Any Nvidia specific programs? (Also what is the go to game people use to check what their system is capable of these days? Witcher 3 is pretty old now) 1
DisturbedSwan Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 GPU-Z and CPU-Z but I used to use to monitor temps @one-armed dwarf but I haven't bothered in ages. Just GeForce Xperience for Nvidia.
spatular Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 i did the same with witcher 3 running around novigrad and i guess it's a bit disappointing the graphics aren't as amazing these days. control, star wars and dirt rally 2 are the main games i've played, they look nice enough but yeah i'd be interested in something to really show off the fancy graphics too. used this one for gpu monitoring - same as Blakey https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ and ryzen master for cpu which won't help.
one-armed dwarf Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 I'll be picking up Control again at some point just to see some basic ray tracing stuff, I didn't realise you had to have an epic account though. Don't feel like making loads of accounts right now and it says it's coming to steam eventually.
DANGERMAN Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 @one-armed dwarf Get unified remote on your phone so you can control your pc with it 1
one-armed dwarf Posted February 1, 2020 Posted February 1, 2020 Here are pictures of my complete lack of regard for cable management I will install fans on the top to suck hot air out eventually but not in need of that right now (and hot air rises anyway so there's that). My PC is hella gay ? 4
Jimboxy Posted February 1, 2020 Posted February 1, 2020 @one-armed dwarf I'll be honest, the cables make me a bit sad. 1
spatular Posted February 1, 2020 Posted February 1, 2020 that looks awesome, i love the multicolour fans but sorry i have to ask about the cpu heat sink and fan... the fan would usually push air from the front of the case through the heat sink and out the back of the case. so wondered which way is that fan pointing? if it's blowing air down onto the graphics card that doesn't seem like a great plan imo (but if your gfx temps are fine then no problem i guess), but if the fan is sucking air through the heat sink and out the top of the case? which would be unusual but maybe thats a good setup - i don't know. what sort of temps you getting? nuctua are supposed to be really good. edit - so yeah if your temps are high that might be the reason, otherwise ignore me 1
one-armed dwarf Posted February 1, 2020 Posted February 1, 2020 I was going to post that it is sucking through the top, but then I got doubtful and did a full speed fan check on the bios. Nope, it's upside down blowing heat back down. So it's a good thing I posted that picture even if Jim is very sad now. In my previous PC I had it on the right pushing out the exhaust vent on the left, which I guess is the more correct way. But I didn't like having the fan sitting right on top of the RAM sticks, it's just more of a tight squeeze in this case. It would probably work fine but be annoying. My CPU temps have been around 60~ish on stuff like the Witcher 3 I think, but with it the wrong way around. I should try a game of Civ V or something on it. GPU I'm not sure, I haven't been monitoring as much. CPU I monitor quite often to see that I didn't feck up the thermal paste. edit, it's not the case rather. It's that the ram and CPU socket seem quite closer on the motherboard than I expect?
spatular Posted February 2, 2020 Posted February 2, 2020 60 is fine, good even, i'd keep an eye on the gpu temps and if they're fine too don't worry about it. i hate installing those things. yeah i know what you mean about the ram clearence, it's not ideal, i had that on my previous pc too.
Jimboxy Posted February 2, 2020 Posted February 2, 2020 Those oversize coolers are the hardest thing to install for sure. I cut my fingers on the fins putting in mine only. I've never checked that I out the fan on mine the correct way around, I need to check that now. I did install the front case fans the wrong way and had to redo them.
Jimboxy Posted February 2, 2020 Posted February 2, 2020 @one-armed dwarf wouldn't pc part picker have highlighted any issues with ram clearence? So long as your temps are ok it's not a worry. Probably worth running one of the stress test bench mark programs to check perhaps?
one-armed dwarf Posted February 2, 2020 Posted February 2, 2020 I downloaded prime95 yesterday, but the executable wouldn't launch. Apparently some .Net framework thing. So I did my own ghetto stress test by running Witcher 3 while doing a never ending for loop in chrome lol. I will adjust the location of that heatsink fan again I think so it's pushing back out and through, but I'll need to get alcohol wipes first so I can reseal the thermal paste. Also because it made @Jimbo Xiii sad I will ask him for recommendations on those cable holder things he has in his case 1
Jimboxy Posted February 2, 2020 Posted February 2, 2020 @one-armed dwarf happy to help! If you weren't so far away I'd offer to come around and do it for you!
one-armed dwarf Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 Does anyone know the status of FreeSync and Nvidia compatibility? I'd expect the two to play nice together but don't really know. Reason being is I'm imagining that PS5/Xbox whatever will be FreeSync ready too so might be nice to start speccing out screens that can be used on multiple devices.
Jimboxy Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 I think it depends on the gpu. Some Nvidia ones support it, some don't (don't they have their own proprietary gsync or something?) My main reason for getting a AMD GPU was that my monitor was freesync.
DANGERMAN Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 Yeah, what Jim said. They used to not support it at all but there is some compatibility now
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